The department shall be equipped with such apparatus and equipment as may be required from time to time to maintain its efficiency and properly protect life and property from fire.
(Ord. 480 § 1, 1980)
All equipment of the department shall be safely and conveniently housed in such places as may be designated by the council.
(Ord. 480 § 1, 1980)
Suitable arrangements of equipment shall be provided for citizens to turn on an alarm, and for notifying all members of the department so that they may properly respond to a fire alarm.
(Ord. 480 § 1, 1980)
No person shall use any fire apparatus or equipment for any private purpose, nor shall any person willfully and without proper authority take away or conceal any article used in any way by the department.
(Ord. 480 § 1, 1980)
The apparatus may be used for suppression of a fire and for any other purpose for preservation of life, or other public emergency.
(Ord. 480 § 1, 1980)
The city is authorize to enter into agreements or contracts with nearby communities or entities with fire protection or to establish a mutual system.
(Ord. 480 § 1, 1980)
No apparatus shall be hired out or permitted to leave the city, except in the response to a call for aid in a neighboring community or entity without the consent of the chief. The officer in charge of the department shall have the power to assign equipment for the response to calls for outside aid in accordance with SMC § 2.32.200 and in other cases only when the absence of such equipment will not jeopardize protection in the city.
(Ord. 480 § 1, 1980)
A. 
For all responses by the Snoqualmie fire department which are made outside the corporate limits of the city in connection with services rendered to nonresidents of the city, the party for whose benefit such response was made shall be billed in accordance with the Fee Schedule for Fire Suppression, as adopted by the Washington State Association of Fire Chiefs, and published in publication WFCA – #50, as that schedule of fees now exists, or may hereafter be modified by the association.
B. 
Consumable items, such as foam, gas, oxygen or other materials which are used on any call outside the corporate limits of the city in connection with services rendered to any nonresident of the city shall be billed at replacement cost in addition to the foregoing fees.
C. 
Equipment destroyed or lost while combatting a fire outside the corporate limits of the city in connection with services rendered to nonresidents of the city shall, to the extent not covered by insurance, be replaced by the party for whose benefit the response was made.
D. 
For all responses on Interstate Highway 90 (I-90), whether within or without the corporate limits of the city, in connection with services rendered to nonresidents of the city, consumable items such as foam, air, oxygen or other materials, and equipment destroyed or lost while combatting a fire shall, to the extent not covered by insurance, be billed at replacement cost to the party for whose benefit the response was made.
E. 
Charges for transportation in connection with emergency medical care by the Snoqualmie Fire Department shall be the same as those charged by local private ambulance services. Charges shall be computed using a base fee of $205.00 plus $9.50 per mile from the site of the patient's pickup to any hospital, emergency room, physician's office or transfer point to which the patient is transported. These charges shall be at the discretion of the fire chief.
F. 
The foregoing charges shall not be applicable to responses made pursuant to any fire protection contract or mutual aid agreement.
G. 
If any section, clause or phrase of this section is held to be invalid or unconstitutional, such invalidity or unconstitutionality shall not affect the validity or constitutionality of the remaining portions hereof.
(Ord. 542 § 1, 1984; Ord. 550 § 1, 1985; Ord. 598 § 1, 1988; Ord. 611 § 1, 1989; Ord. 686 § 1, 1992)